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SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 07, 2006, 11:56:44 am ---You think so? Okay then, back to the drawing board. How does Xlink Kai communicate between different console systems?
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That's IP tunneling. That tech has been around forever.
I will try to explain it. Let's say you want to play a friend. You have Xlink Kai on your computer, he has it on his. It will monitor your lan traffic for xbox protocol requests (system link stuff). When it sees the ip traffic it will send it to your buddy's computer which will send it to his xbox.
g1275:
I used to use kaillera all the time and if you had a decent computer/connection and u knew how to punch port holes through your firewall there wasn't much lag at all for the games that I liked to play (tmnt, simpsons, street fighter, etc.) It wasn't just for MAME either, kaillera worked quite well for NES, SNES, and Genesis as well. But I think the biggest advantage to kaillera was when I would play through different floors on the same network, like a system link. If you wanted to have a good game of the Simpsons, had two cabinets, and wanted to give the players more space, kaillera would do that. Kaillera even worked well for a select few games of N64 like mario kart.
I will say kaillera wasn't exactly what you would call "user-friendly", it took a bit of finagling to understand the system link, some servers weren't as reliable as others, and it was a bit buggy at times, etc. I would definitely like to see an easier version of netplay in MAME, but who ever decides to do it is sure to have their work cut out for them.
GoPodular.com:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 07, 2006, 10:20:44 am ---(and another thing to piss off the MAMEdevs).
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If they don't want it, then there's no reason to add it. I didn't know they had said anything though.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: GoPodular.com on March 07, 2006, 09:29:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 07, 2006, 10:20:44 am ---(and another thing to piss off the MAMEdevs).
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If they don't want it, then there's no reason to add it. I didn't know they had said anything though.
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http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=63129&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
Although, as I read it, their main issue is failure to release source code changes and support of newer games, not net play itself - but I could be wrong about that.
Silver:
RE: What's Next.
Well if someone has some time on there hands a universal input system would be handy:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51156.msg501117#msg501117
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